Apparently, a twitter storm has broken out about the post I don't want to get into, but Greenwald's latest has a couple things I wanted to respond to on the merits, so I thought I'd go ahead. On this: As Matt Stoller argued in a...
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I'm ambivalent about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But you have to admit that it was inspired for Fincher to make the first villain a dead ringer for Mark.
Shorter Bobo: "There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. Also, too much premarital sex. I am not a crackpot."
Without further comment, the great Carl Wilson on Pitchfork's Album of the Year (and Richard Bruckner): Which brings me round, if only because you asked, to Bon Iver. I see the appeal of Justin Vernon’s traffic-stopping falsetto and deft arrangements, but I can’t handle the...
Looks like little Ricky might get a decent showing in Iowa on the road to oblivion. I definitely expect him to beat Newt.
This won't be a surprise to longtime readers, but I agree 100% with Atrios about Perry changing his position to oppose abortion in cases of rape or incest. These exemptions.
There's no way around it -- having opponents who weren't running for president or were only half-seriously running is a major advantage. Relatedly, I think in his post arguing that Romney isn't inevitable Nate Silver in fact makes an excellent case for his inevitability. His...
Oddly, Perry is now in favor of it. This must be unprecedented. Can anybody think of even a single example of a Republican making a plea for federal judicial intervention.
It's too bad; a couple more speeches and Obama could have turned him into Bernie Sanders. As Benen says, it says a great deal about Nelson that he waited until.
Hopefully everybody in the LGM community had/is having a good holiday. Since I have only thanked him in comments, I owe all-star commenter Howard front-page thanks for sending me a copy of Live in Europe 1967, which of course is incredible. (Profound and Original Music...
There are a couple of important points worth adding to the story of Tanya Rosenblit, the Israeli woman who refused demands from ultra-Orthodox male passengers to move to the back.
What happens when a QB playing like Colt McCoy and Josh Freeman and Dan Orlovsky (well, not quite as well as the immortal Orlovsky) despite an unrealistically low turnover rate.